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In reply to the discussion: A disturbing new detail about the photo of the classified documents found in Trump's possession... [View all]Danascot
(5,309 posts)70. Captured, killed or compromised: CIA admits to losing dozens of informants
This is from October 2021. I wonder if it has anything to do with where Trumps classified documents ended up.
Top American counterintelligence officials warned every CIA station and base around the world last week about troubling numbers of informants recruited from other countries to spy for the United States being captured or killed, people familiar with the matter said.
The message, in an unusual top-secret cable, said that the CIAs counterintelligence mission center had looked at dozens of cases in the last several years involving foreign informants who had been killed, arrested or most likely compromised. Although brief, the cable laid out the specific number of agents executed by rival intelligence agencies a closely held detail that counterintelligence officials typically do not share in such cables.
The cable highlighted the struggle the spy agency is having as it works to recruit spies around the world in difficult operating environments. In recent years, adversarial intelligence services in countries such as Russia, China, Iran and Pakistan have been hunting down the CIAs sources and in some cases turning them into double agents.
The message, in an unusual top-secret cable, said that the CIAs counterintelligence mission center had looked at dozens of cases in the last several years involving foreign informants who had been killed, arrested or most likely compromised. Although brief, the cable laid out the specific number of agents executed by rival intelligence agencies a closely held detail that counterintelligence officials typically do not share in such cables.
The cable highlighted the struggle the spy agency is having as it works to recruit spies around the world in difficult operating environments. In recent years, adversarial intelligence services in countries such as Russia, China, Iran and Pakistan have been hunting down the CIAs sources and in some cases turning them into double agents.
https://www.seattletimes.com/nation-world/captured-killed-or-compromised-cia-admits-to-losing-dozens-of-informants/
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A disturbing new detail about the photo of the classified documents found in Trump's possession... [View all]
Shipwack
May 2023
OP
simply put, the picture that was taken of the secret document cover sheets at Mar A Lago
drray23
May 2023
#4
That or traded for current and or future favors such as a safe harbour to do a Snowden.
cstanleytech
May 2023
#67
pics (some of the Trump docs' cover sheets do not bleed to the edge, so they are perhaps copies)
Celerity
May 2023
#24
I think? If you were just making a copy for content, you wouldn't waste color ink.
forgotmylogin
May 2023
#38
This country has been through worse events than Trump. 1. CIVIL WAR 2. WORLD WAR 1 . WORLD WAR 2,
Stuart G
May 2023
#33
Unfortunately I think even when he's dead we'll still be learning of the scope of his crimes.
Axelrods_Typewriter
May 2023
#68
Yup - I remember the smell of the mimeograph solution and the smear of the carbon copies.
erronis
May 2023
#44
It's possible that he made copies of docs before turning over original docs to FBI in June
wishstar
May 2023
#43
If it was truly OK for Trump to have classified docs, there would be no need for him to lie about it
keithbvadu2
May 2023
#60
The article said that there are indications that the copies were made outside the White House.
yardwork
May 2023
#72
And we must wonder why he was/is so insistent on saying he "de-classified" them??
kentuck
May 2023
#74